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Sometimes visiting blogs is like a game of connect the dots: one link leads to another, one blog stops you in your tracks — the lure of the subject, the way the blogger spins words, the photos and/or graphics artfully positioned. Often it’s that very blog that stops you in your tracks that leads you to another . . . and another.

So how lucky for me to have made the delightful online acquaintance of Kelly Garriott Waite and her equally delightful blog, Writing in the Margins/Bursting at the Seams, where she graciously passed along The Versatile Blogger award to me. Now it’s my turn to continue the chain.

1. In joining the ranks of The Versatile Blogger, I’m asked to reveal seven things about myself. So consider this the first: I take my awards very seriously. 😉

2. I have a very curious nature — and I have yet to uncover the very roots of the award. If that makes it feel a little like a mysterious chain letter, so be it. No promises here of great wealth if I maintain the chain, disaster if I break it. Just the promise of more and more recommended blogs to check out.

3. Sometimes I think I live to hear live music.

4. Sometimes I make a dance out of preparing dinner. A shot of vodka (or tequila). The CD player blasting — Eric Clapton or Buddy Guy. Bruce Springsteen or the Rolling Stones. Lada Gaga. A cutting board is transformed into a rhythm section. Chicken cacciatore sings in the pan.

5. Dancing and doing yoga are ways into myself. Writing is a way out. Or is it the other way around?

6. I knew I would miss my dog when I released her from this life, but I didn’t know I would miss her this much.

7. One question I often ask myself but resist answering: if I could go back in time, what would I do differently?

So now, in the spirit of being named a ‘versatile blogger,’ I’ll do what many before me have done, namely, pass along the baton. And while the rules of the mysterious award suggest adding fifteen new blogs to the mix, I’ll stop at eight, an octave, with its implicit bringing of things full circle. After all, versatility is adaptation at its best.

Madame Mayo With her insights into all things literary (and otherwise), fantastic graphics and podcasts, links to intriguing blogs, guest-writers she brings on board, C.M. Mayo is, to my thinking, the versatile blogger par excellence. If you don’t know her wonderful body of work (bilingual, to boot), this is the place to find out what you’re missing.

Christine Boyka Kluge Her photographs are the embodiment of poetry; her poetry is exquisite, poignant, rich. Her thoughts on language and art qualify her as a muse.

Cheerio Road It was a visit to Madame Mayo’s blog that brought me to the zen wisdom of Karen Maezen Miller. I can’t say it any better than I did when I wrote about her book, Hand Wash Cold: Maybe it takes a Zen Buddhist priest who also happens to be a woman ever mindful of her role as mother and wife to make a metaphor of laundry as a starting place for loving the life we wake up to.

apifera farm Again, it was Madame Mayo’s post on the way Katherine Dunn manages to bring together art, marketing, and farming that intrigued me to visit . . . and to keep coming back.

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15 thoughts on “Good Company”

I’m thrilled to know more about you Deborah, and hope to sit down to one of your ‘spririted’ dancing dinners some day. As an eager reader of everything you write, this award doesn’t surprise me one bit! And my dervish thanks you most sincerely for mentioning me…

Deborah,
what fun to learn these facts about you! I too ask myself what I would change if I could go back in time. We should all be given a practice run at some things in life! I will drop by the blogs you have awarded and pay them a visit!

Hola Deborah,
I am very honored by your words, and thank you also for the tips about other blogs. How I love discovering creative voices, information and inspiration! Blog on! (P.S. I am a big fan of Marshal Zeringue’s other blog, Coffee with a Canine.)

Oh, to meet another fan of Christine Boyka Kluge!
How divine. I am a huge fan of hers. We’ve corresponded, as well.
I offer my congratulations to those above on your award, and look forward to reading more here.
I came here via She Writes.

Hi, I’m working my way backwards through the SheWrites Blogger Ball blog hop and have now found you. First, I love your blog header.

Second, I think I’m going to have to try your dinner dance, since I’m just about at the end of my dinner-making rope. I find nothing fun about it and still can’t believe my children want to eat every day (sometimes more than once!). Maybe if I dance my way through the preparations and turn my cutting board into a rhythm section, it won’t seem so bad.

Hello. Visiting from the She Writes Bloggers Ball. Congratulations on the award! There is much about blogging that is still mysterious to me, but I am enjoying meeting other bloggers out here in cyberspace. About the dog – I completely understand. I’ve been there.